Ok so i’m just getting into housing and am loving it so far but just wondering if anyone knows why i can’t add some lights to the outside of my house.
And is this something the devs are going to add later on or should i just not get my hopes up?
Thanks
It is a technical issue. Lighting effects demand a lot. When you are in your plot, you are also loading your neighbor’s plot, you can see it from here. So, it adds up to too much demand on the computers. Even more if you are flying over and loading and leaving many plots.
But there are SOME lighting things that work outside. Elune’s Brazier, the fountains have internal lighting, the paper lanterns and so on. What we are missing is that lamp post that would light our dark pile of boxes and tables.
Yes. We had it in Alpha but it caused serious performance issues. It is definitely something they would like to give back when they can. It is pretty obvious some lights were made for outside!
Cool thank you both for your replies! will just keep working on my house and just wait and see what they can give us.
Blizzard should consider separating lighting budget out from the normal budget. There should be a way to place a limited number of light sources outdoors, but the system should prevent that people use their entire 250 points outdoor budget for light sources.
Perhaps having 250 normal outdoor budget and 25 outdoor lighting budget would be feasible to avoid performance issues.